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1626 - Such a deal! Governor Peter Minuit sort of pulled the wool over someone‘s eyes and bought a 20,000-acre island, all of what is now Manhattan Island. The price? $24 worth of cloth and brass buttons.1835 - James Gordon Bennett published the New York Herald for the first time.
1851 - Dr. John Gorrie of Apalachicola FL, patented the mechanical refrigerator.
1851 - Linus Yale of Newport, NY became well known for his patent of the clock-type lock. If the name Yale sounds familiar, it should. Yale locks are among the top brands of security devices sold today.
1889 - The Universal Exposition opened in Paris, France, marking the dedication of the recently constructed Eiffel Tower. The exposition also was known for the display of the first automobile in Paris. No, it wasn‘t a French auto. It was a German Mercedes-Benz, one of the world’s most luxurious automobiles.
1910 - King George V ascended the British throne after the death of King Edward VII.
1915 - Babe Ruth hit his first major-league home run. He was playing for the Boston Red Sox at the time. ‘The Sultan of Swat’ went on to smash 714 round-trippers before he retired, as a New York Yankee, in 1935.
1920 - The Symphony Society of New York presented a concert at the Paris Opera House. It was the first American orchestra to make a European tour.
1937 - A student of history, a broadcaster or anyone interested in news coverage, will remember this day and the words of NBC radio‘s Herbert Morrison. “Oh, the humanity!” Morrison‘s emotion-filled historic broadcast of the explosion of the dirigible, Hindenburg at Lakehurst, NJ, became the first recorded coast-to-coast broadcast as it was carried on both the NBC Red and NBC Blue networks from New York City.
1940 - The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to John Steinbeck for Grapes of Wrath.
1941 - Joseph Stalin became the premier of Russia And how did he become premier? He just grabbed the title for himself.
1942 - Irving Berlin published White Christmas. The song was featured in the 1942 movie Holiday Inn, starring Bing Crosby. Crosby‘s recording of White Christmas has sold more than 50-million copies.
1946 - The New York Yankees announced that they were to be the first major-league baseball team to travel by airplane during the entire 1946 season.
1950 - Liz Taylor was married for the first time -- to Conrad Hilton Jr. The marriage (the first of eight for Taylor) would last until Jan 29, 1951.
1952 - Italian physician and educationist Maria Montessori died. She was 81 years old. Montessori put into practice her theory that children have a natural ‘tendency towards elevation,’ and she created an environment for self-education and self-realization -- with great success. She became internationally famous and schools all over the world use the ‘Montessori Method’.
1954 - Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile in Oxford, England. He was timed at 3:59.4 seconds. Bannister told reporters that a mile run of 3:30 would be run before 1999. His prediction did not come true although runners are definitely getting closer. The record time of 3:43.13 by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco stands as the world men‘s outdoor mile record since July 7, 1999. Any challengers?
1957 - Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage.
1959 - The Pablo Picasso painting of a Dutch Girl (La Belle Hollandaise) was sold for $154,000 in London. It was the highest price paid to that time for a painting by a living artist.
1960 - Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, married Anthony Armstrong-Jones in Westminster Abbey.
1962 - The USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), operating in the Pacific Ocean, fired the only nuclear-armed Polaris missile ever launched. The missile was launched from sub while it was submerged, and its nuclear warhead was detonated over the South Pacific at the end of its programmed flight.
1968 - Astronaut Neil Armstrong came close to being killed in a lunar module trainer accident. The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle he was flying went out of control and Armstrong was forced to eject; he landed by parachute and walked away uninjured.
1974 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigned after an aide was arrested on charges of spying for East Germany.
1976 - An earthquake struck the city of Friuli in Italy. The quake killed 951 people and left 45,000 homeless.
1982 - Gaylord Perry of the Seattle Mariners became the 15th pitcher in the major leagues to win 300 career victories. Perry, known for his spitball as well as a variety of other pitches, led the Mariners past the New York Yankees 7-3.
1986 - From the What an Ungrateful Thing to Do, Joan file: Comedienne, Joan Rivers, put her foot in her mouth by announcing to the world that she was leaving The Tonight Show as permanent guest host to begin her own late-night gabfest on the new FOX TV Network.
1987 - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981-1987), died of pneumonia at the age of 74.
1989 - Sunday Silence scored an upset victory over Easy Goer in the 115th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.
1992 - Actress Marlene Dietrich died in Paris at age 90. Born Maria Magdalene Dietrich (on December 27, 1901, in in Shoeneburg, Germany), Dietrich became popular in her native country as a cabaret singer and then a film star. She was known as the toast of Berlin, but her 1929 film The Blue Angel was a scandalous international success, and she moved to Hollywood soon after. Her interpretation of the melancholy song Lili Marlene is one of the most remembered songs of World War II. Dietrich not only sang for the U.S. Army, but recorded songs containing coded messages for American spy teams.
1994 - The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved an assault weapons ban (216-214).
1994 - England‘s Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand formally opened the Channel Tunnel (Chunnel) between their countries. After travelling through the tunnel, which took eight years and billions of pounds to build, the Queen said it was one of the world‘s great technological achievements.
1995 - Long-shot Thunder Gulch won the 121st running of the Kentucky Derby.
1996 - The body of former CIA director William E. Colby was found on a riverbank near his southern Maryland vacation home, eight days after he had gone missing.
1997 - Singer Joni Mitchell refused to attend her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. The story goes that she wanted to avoid the media attention after her reunion with a daughter she gave up for adoption years earlier. Also not showing up in Cleveland was singer Neil Young (inducted as a member of Buffalo Springfield). He snubbed the Hall of Fame ceremonies because he was given only one free ticket to the induction dinner.
1998 - Astronomers announced the detection of a gamma ray burst in a galaxy 12 billion light years away that was equal to the energy expended by the sun in one trillion years.
2000 - Fusaichi Pegasus won the 126th Kentucky Derby. He was the first favorite to win the Kentucky Derby since Spectacular Bid in 1979.
2001 - American businessman Dennis Tito ended the world’s first paid space vacation as he returned to Earth aboard a Russian capsule.
2002 - According to internal Enron documents released by U.S. federal regulators, Enron Corporation had manipulated the California power system to increase profits.
2003 - Kmart Corporation emerged from bankruptcy on this day -- after more than 15 months in Chapter 11 protection.
2004 - Lea Fastow, wife of former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and was sentenced to one year in prison.
2005 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Crash, starring Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Dashon Howard, Chris ‘˜Ludacris‘ Bridges, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate and Nona Gaye; House of Wax, with Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams, Brian Van Holt, Emma Lung, Damon Herriman and Brian Van Holt; and Kingdom of Heaven, starring Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Jeremy Irons, Eva Green, Marton Csokas, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson and Alexander Siddig.
2005 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair unveiled his new Cabinet after a third-term victory dampened by his reduced majority in Parliament.
2006 - Singapore’s ruling party won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections. The People‘s Action Party has won every general election held in the island nation since Singapore became independent in 1965.
2007 - Britain‘s Lord Bernard Weatherill died at 86 years of age. He was the last Speaker of the House of Commons to wear the traditional shoulder-length wig, and he ushered the House of Commons into the TV age (he was Speaker at the time TV cameras were first allowed to cover proceedings).
2008 - Chile‘s Chaiten volcano blasted ash more than 12 miles into the sky, prompting a total evacuation of the provincial capital and other settlements.
2008 - Swiss bank UBS, hard hit by the subprime lending crisis, reported a first-quarter 2008 loss of $12 billion (£6 billion) and said it would slash seven percent of its work force.
2008 - Senator Barack Obama climbed to within 200 delegates of clinching the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination. In the Indiana primary Clinton won 51% to 49%. In North Carolina Obama won 56% to 42%.
2009 - Canada and the European Union signed an ‘open skies’ pact, allowing airlines from the two countries to fly freely between any airport in the 27-country EU and any in Canada.
2009 - Maine’s Governor John Baldacci signed a bill approving gay marriage, making Maine the fifth U.S. state to allow same-sex marriage.
2009 - U.S. scientists in the Jason submersible from Woods Hole, MA filmed the West Mata undersea volcano between Samoa and Fiji. The summit of the volcano reached some 4,000 feet from the sea floor and was still some 4,000 feet below the ocean‘s surface.
2010 - Russian forces freed a hijacked Russian oil tanker and rescued its crew. The helicopter-backed operation killed one Somali pirate and resulted in the capture of ten others. (Russia released the pirates the following day because there were no legal grounds to prosecute them in Moscow.)
2010 - The Dow Jones Industrail Average fell nearly 1000 points in intraday trading, but recovered to close at 10,520.32, down 347.8. Five months later, regulators said the so-called ‘flash crash’ was sparked by a sloppily executed sell order of one mutual fund group when the market was already jittery over economic turmoil in Greece.
2011 - New movie in the U.S.: Thor, starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd, Kat Dennings and Clark Gregg; Jumping the Broom, with Angela Bassett, Paula Patton, Laz Alonso, Loretta Devine, Meagan Good amd Tasha Smith; Something Borrowed, with Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield, John Krasinski m Steve Howey and Ashley Williams; An Invisible Sign, starring Jessica Alba, Bailee Madison , J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Sonia Braga and John Shea; The Beaver, starring Mel Gibson. Cherry Jones, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Riley Thomas Stewart, Zachary Booth and Jennifer Lawrence; Daydream Nation, with Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Josh Lucas, Andie MacDowell, Rachel Blanchard and Natasha Calis; Hobo with a Shotgun, starring Rutger Hauer, Pasha Ebrahimi, Robb Wells, Brian Downey, Gregory Smith, Nick Bateman and Drew O‘Hara; There Be Dragons, with Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott, Unax Ugalde, Olga Kurylenko and Pablo Lapadula; and The Vintner‘s Luck, starring Jérémie Renier, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Vania Vilers, Eric Godon, Patrice Valota and François Beukelaers Movie actor.
2011 - Thousands of Syrians rallied on a ‘Day of Defiance’ as the regime of President Bashar al-Assad deployed tanks in at least three centers of an uprising against his autocratic rule. Dozens of protestors were killed.
2013 - Three women, Amanda Berry (27), Gina DeJesus (23) and Michelle Knight (32), who had been missing separately for about a decade, were found alive in a residential area in Cleveland, Ohio. On May 8 Ariel Castro was charged with the kidnapping and rape of the three. On July 26 he pleaded guilty to 937 counts in a deal to avoid the death penalty. He was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole plus 1,000 years. A month into his sentence, Castro committed suicide in his prison cell.
2014 - The city council of Beverly Hills, California passed a resolution calling for Brunei to change its laws or divest its ownership of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Brunei had been the target of a growing Hollywood boycott since the country embraced an anti-gay penal code.
2015 - The U.S. IRS inspector general reported that nearly 160 IRS workers per year had been found to have willfully evaded taxes over a 10-year period. The report said most of the evaders were not fired, even though a 1998 law orders terminations for IRS workers who willfully do not pay their taxes.
2015 - A Berlin court overturned a federal entry ban on a group of nationalist Russian bikers planning to commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany 70 years ago by riding their motorcycles through the German capital to mark the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.
2016 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theatres included: Captain America: Civil War, starring Chris Evans, Steve Roger, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Rudd; Being Charlie, with Nick Robinson, Common and Cary Elwes; Bite, starriang Elma Begovic, Annette Wozniak and Jordan Gray; and the documentary Dark Horse.
2016 - A SpaceX rocket landed on an ocean platform for the 2nd time following the successful launch of a Japanese communications satellite at Cape Canaveral.
2016 - Pope Francis accepted the prestigious International Charlemagne Prize, for his “message of hope and encouragement”. But the pontiff warned Europeans against the selfish temptation to put up fences to ward off newcomers, saying he still dreamed of a Europe where migrants are welcomed.
2017 - Nicole Meyer, the sister of Jared Kushner, POTUS Donald Trump’s son-in-law, made a pitch to some 100 Chinese investors in Beijing to attract $150 million in financing. Meyer said the investors would have a chance to get U.S. immigrant visas if they put money into the real estate project. The controversial EB-5 program allowed wealthy foreigners to, in effect, buy U.S. immigration visas for themselves and families by investing at least $500,000 in certain development projects. Former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter said, “this is an abuse of power and should not be allowed. We can’t have a situation where public officials and their families are using those programs to enrich wthemselves.”
2018 - Sixteen women who went to Syria to join Islamic State have been jailed in Tehran, Iran. This, while Iraq carried out an airstrike in neighboring Syria targeting the Islamic State group.
2018 - 2,000 people on the Big Island of Hawaii were evacuated from homes after lava eruptions destroyed five houses. Sulfur dioxide gas threatened to harm anyone who stayed in the residential area.
2019 - Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex and wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, gave birth to a boy. Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born in the early hours of the morning weighing 7 lbs 3oz (3.26 kg). Meghan, a U.S.-born former actress, and the baby, the couple’s first child, were both healthy and well, the palace reported.
2019 - The United Nations’ first comprehensive report on biodiversity said nature was in more trouble than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million species of plants and animals.
2020 - U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued regulations on sexual assault at colleges and schools to increase protections for people accused of sexual harassment and assault on campus. The changes rolled back Obama-era guidance for schools to step up investigations.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)A federal appeals court blocked a judge’s order forcing Florida’s Miami-Dade County to give masks, soap and cleaning supplies to inmates at Metro West Detention Center where 163 inmates had tested positive.
2)Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said his government was declaring a national state of mourning for the more than 25,000 people in the country who had died from the coronavirus.
3)Health authorities scrambled to contain an outbreak at a huge fruit and vegetable market in Chennai, India. Hundreds of Indian police tested positive for the coronavirus in recent days, raising alarm as India attempted to enforce the world’s largest lockdown.
4)Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said they would open their borders to each others’ citizens, creating a Baltic ‘travel bubble’ within the European Union.
5)Total U.S. cases reached over 1.2 million with the death toll at more than 73,000. Worldwide numbers were 3.7 million cases, with some 263,000 deaths.2021 - Izumi Nakamitsu, United Nations representative for Disarmament Affairs, said in a briefing before the Security Council that a chemical agent, without naming what it was, found “inside storage containers of large volume at a previously declared chemical weapons facility in Syria -- and that may imply undeclared production activities.”
2021 - The Federal Election Commission formally dropped the case looking into whether former POTUS Donald J. Trump violated election law with a payment of $130,000 to a pornographic-film actress by his personal lawyer at the time, Michael D. Cohen. Mr. Cohen served time in prison, but Mr. Trump did not face legal consequences for the payment. The payoff was made shortly before the 2016 election.
2022 - Movies set to open in the U.S. included: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen Chiwetel Ejiofor; Happening, with Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein and Luàna Bajrami; the animated Little Sorcerer, with characters voiced by Geri Courtney-Austein, Ashley Bornancin and Tony Azzolino; Lux Aeterna, starring Béatrice Dalle, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Abbey Lee; Shepherd, with Kate Dickie, Tom Hughes and Jamie Marie Leary; Suicide for Beginners, starring Wil Daniels, Sara Tomko and Nate Panning; and The Twin, with Teresa Palmer, Steven Cree and Barbara Marten.
2022 - An explosion at the five-star Saratoga Hotel in Havana, Cuba killed 47 people and injured 52 others. A gas leak was blamed for the blast that destroyed entire sections of the building and damaged others nearby, such as El Capitolio, Teatro Martí, and the Calvary Baptist Church. The façade of the building was almost entirely destroyed, and parts of it collapsed onto the street, crushing cars and people as well as sending debris flying through the air. Remaining rooms could be seen damaged and exposed from the street.
2022 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said ongoing Russian shelling of the Mariupol steel plant was making the situation “hell” for the roughly 200 civilians, including many children, still stuck there. U.S. officials said the U.S. provided intelligence had helped Ukrainian forces sink the Moskva, Russia’s Black Sea flagship.
2023 - A gunman killed eight people and wounded seven others at the Allen (north of Dallas) Premium Outlets. The gunman, who authorities believe was acting alone, was also killed. It was the ninth mass shooting in Texas in 14 years.
2023 - Alberta, Canada declared a state of emergency because of unprecedented wildfires. More than 100 fires had forced the evacuation of some 25,000 people, and another 5,200 residents were on evacuation alert.
2023 - The coronation of King Chares III and Queen Camilla was held at Westminster Abbey, London. Chares was the first monarch to be crowned in the U.K. in 70 years.
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Birthdays on This Day May 6
1758 - Maximilian Robespierre
French revolutionary; executed [guillotine] July 28, 17941856 - Sigmund Freud
psychiatrist, originated psychoanalysis; died Sep 23, 19391856 - Robert E. Peary
explorer: discoverer of the North Pole, Greenland, and the Melville meteorite; died Feb 20, 19201895 - Rudolph Valentino (Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina)
actor: The Big Little Person, The Delicious Little Devil, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Blood and Sand, Sheik; died Aug 23, 1926
1903 - (Bernard) Toots Shor
restaurateur, barkeep; died Jan 23, 19771904 - Raymond Bailey
actor: The Beverly Hillbillies, The Strongest Man in the World, Herbie Rides Again, Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Absent Minded Professor [1961], The Gallant Hours, Wake Me When It‘s Over; died Apr 15, 19801907 - (Wilbur Charles) Weeb Ewbank
Pro Football Hall of Famer: head coach: Baltimore Colts [2-time world champions: 1958-1959], NY Jets [Super Bowl III]; coached 130 career wins; died Nov 17, 19981911 - Frank Nelson
radio actor: The Great Gildersleeve, Burns and Allen, Fibber McGee & Molly; actor: The Jack Benny Show, I Love Lucy, The Jetsons, The Malibu Bikini Shop, Kiss Them for Me, It‘s Always Fair Weather, Remains to Be Seen, My Pal Gus, So You Want to Get It Wholesale; he was instrumental in forming and guiding the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists [AFTRA]; died Sep 12, 19861912 - Bill Quinn
actor: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Bustin‘ Loose, Scruples, Backstairs at the White House, Captains and the Kings; died Apr 29, 19941913 - Carmen Cavallaro
pianist: Chopin‘s Polonaise; films: The Eddy Duchin Story, Hollywood Canteen, Out of this World, Diamond Horseshoe; died Oct 12, 19891913 - Stewart Granger
actor: King Solomon‘s Mines, Scaramouche, The Prisoner of Zenda, Beau Brummell, North to Alaska, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Last Safari, The Virginian [TV series], Hell Hunters; died Aug 16, 19931915 - (George) Orson Welles
actor: War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane, The Mercury Radio Theatre of the Air, The Long Hot Summer, A Man for All Seasons, MacBeth, Moby Dick, Casino Royale, Catch-22; died Oct 10, 19851918 - Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
first president/ruler United Arab Emirates [1966-2004]; died Nov 2, 20041920 - Ross Hunter (Martin Fuss)
producer: Son of Ali Baba, Magnificent Obsession, My Man Godfrey, Tammy and the Bachelor, Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace, Flower Drum Song, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Airport; actor: Louisiana Hayride, Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, Reform School Girl; died Mar 10, 19961920 - Marguerite Piazza (Luft)
soprano: regular on TV‘s Your Show of Shows; died Aug 2, 20121922 - Pat Harder
football: Univ of Wisconsin all-American; NFL: Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals: shared individual game record: points after touchdowns [9: Cardinals vs. NY Giants Oct 17, 1948]; died Sep 6, 19921923 - Elizabeth Sellars
actress: A Voyage Round My Father, The Chalk Garden, Three Cases of Murder, Never Let Go, Desiree; died Dec 30, 20191923 - Harry (Percival) Watson
Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks; died Nov 19, 20021931 - Willie Mays
Baseball Hall of Famer: ‘The Say Hey Kid’: NY Giants [World Series: 1951, 1954/all-star: 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957], SF Giants [World Series: 1962/all-star: 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971], NY Mets [World Series: 1973/all-star: 1972, 1973]1937 - Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter
boxer: welterweight/middleweight fighter [1961-1966]; convicted [1967, 1976] for the murder of three people at the Lafayette Grill in June 1966; released from prison in 1985 after a judge ruled that he had been wrongly convicted; autobiography: The 16th Round; subject of film: The Hurricane [1999]; died Apr 20, 20141940 - Bill (William Alfred) Hands
baseball: pitcher: SF Giants, Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers; died Mar 9, 20171944 - Bill Legend (Bill Fifield)
musician: drums: group: T. Rex: Bang a Gong [Get It On]1945 - Bob Seger
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer: musician, singer: Night Moves, Travelin‘ Man, Ramblin‘ Gamblin‘ Man, Against the Wind, Fire Lake; more1946 - Susan Brown
actress: Game of Thrones, Hope and Glory, Call the Midwife, The Iron Lady1946 - Grier Jones
golf: Walt Disney World National Team Championship [1977 w/Gibby Gilbert]; head coach: Wichita State men‘s golf program1947 - Alan Dale
actor: I Remember, After the Sunset, Hollywood Homicide, Star Trek: Nemesis, Playing Mona Lisa, The X-Files, First Daughter1947 - Ben Masters
actor: Running Mates, Noble House, All that Jazz, Making Mr. Right, Dream Lover, Mandingo, Heartbeat1949 - Dennis Havig
football: Univ. of Colorado; NFL: Atlanta Falcons1951 - Davey Johnstone
musician: guitar, in trio backing Elton John: Rocket Man, Honky Cat, Crocodile Rock, Daniel, Bennie and the Jets, Island Girl, The Bitch is Back, Don‘t Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Someone Saved My Life Tonight1952 - Fred McNeill
football: Minnesota Vikings linebacker: Super Bowl IX, XI1953 - Tony (Charles Lynton) Blair
Prime Minister of United Kingdom [1997-2007]1953 - Lynn Whitfield
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Josephine Baker Story [1991]; Touched by an Angel, The Planet of Junior Brown, Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story, A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Eve‘s Bayou, The Cheetah Girls, The Cheetah Girls 2, Madea‘s Family Reunion, Kings Faith1954 - Kathleen Kennedy
film producer: Emma‘s War, Jurassic Park series, War of the Worlds [2005], Munich, Seabiscuit, Signs, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Sixth Sense1955 - Tom Bergeron
TV host/MC: America‘s Funniest Home Videos, Hollywood Squares, Dancing with the Stars1959 - Mare Winningham
actress: Graduation, The Magic of Ordinary Days, The Maldonado Miracle, Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke, Sally Hemings: An American Scandal1960 - Anne Parillaud
actress: Nikita, Gigola, Demandez la permission aux enfants, Shattered Image, L‘Intoxe, Le Temps d‘une Miss, The Man in the Iron Mask1960 - Roma Downey
actress: Touched by an Angel, A Woman Named Jackie, A Child is Missing, Borrowed Hearts, A Test of Love1961 - George (Timothy) Clooney
Academy Award-winning actor: Syriana [2005]; The Facts of Life, Return of the Killer Tomatoes!, Roseanne, Sunset Beat, Red Surf, Sisters, Baby Talk, Bodies of Evidence, ER, From Dusk Till Dawn, Batman & Robin, The Peacemaker, The Thin Red Line, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Perfect Storm, Solaris, Ocean‘s Eleven, Ocean‘s Twelve, Good Night, and Good Luck; son of broadcast journalist Nick Clooney; nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney1963 - Lynn Whitfield
actress: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide...When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Silverado, The Slugger‘s Wife, Jaws: The Revenge, Dead Aim, The George McKenna Story, Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI, The Women of Brewster Place, Heartbeat, Equal Justice1964 - Dana Hill
actress: Final Verdict, Combat High, National Lampoon‘s European Vacation, Welcome Home, Jellybean, Shoot the Moon; died July 15, 19961965 - Bob Bassen
hockey [center]: NY Islanders, Chicago Blackhawks, SLs Blues, Quebec Nordiques, Dallas Stars, Calgary Flames; more1966 - Amy Hunter
actress: The Scorpion King, Two Can Play that Game, Schemes, Pacific Blue1970 - Kavan Smith
actor: Eureka, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, The 4400, Supernatural, Smallville, Sanctuary, Tru Calling, Battlestar Galactica, Outer Limits, Human Target, The Twilight Zone, Red: Werewolf Hunter1972 - Martin Brodeur
hockey [goalie]: New Jersey Devils1982 - Jason Witten
football [tight end]: Univ of Tennessee: NFL: Dallas Cowboys [2003-2017, 2019]; Las Vegas Raiders [2020]; records: 18 receptions in a game by a tight end, 110 receptions in a single season by a tight end; third all time in career receptions by a tight end1983 - Adrianne Palicki
actress: The Orville, Friday Night Lights, Legion, Red Dawn, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III1983 - Gabourey Sidibe
actress: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Yelling to the Sky, The Big C, Saturday Night Live, American Horror Story, Empire1990 - José Altuve
baseball [2nd base]: Houston Astros [2011– ]: 2017 World Series champs1993 - Naomi Scott
actress: Terra Nova, Our Lady of Lourdes, Power Rangers, Aladdin, Lemonade Mouth, Charlie’s Angels1995 - Tiera Skovbye
actress: The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story, Riverdale, Once Upon a Time, Nurses2002 - Emily Alyn Lind
actress: November Christmas, All My Children, Dear Dumb Diary, Mockingbird, Revenge
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Hit Music on This Day May 6
1952Blue Tango (facts) - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Blacksmith Blues (facts) - Ella Mae Morse
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